AWStats 7.x through 7.8 allows XSS in the hostinfo plugin due to printing a response from Net::XWhois without proper checks.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-b645c7feda advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2022-46391

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5899-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that AWStats did not properly sanitize the content of whois responses in the hostinfo     plugin. An attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-fda5480804 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2022-46391

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3225 advisory.

  - AWStats 7.x through 7.8 allows XSS in the hostinfo plugin due to printing a response from Net::XWhois     without proper checks. (CVE-2022-46391)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
194614	Fedora 37 : awstats (2023-b645c7feda)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
171986	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : AWStats vulnerability (USN-5899-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
170114	Fedora 36 : awstats (2023-fda5480804)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
168404	Debian DLA-3225-1 : awstats - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2022-46391

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium